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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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It is so nice to be done with this semester; I finished my last exam on the 8th, so I have a nice long 1 month break before I go back January 8th.
I have been so busy lately, I have had so much business to take care of, I have had the house all to myself since thanksgiving, and they are all about to come home again, everyone arrives Thursday, and I'm not looking forward to the crowded state that things will take, but I am looking forward to not having to take care of everything, I am not well suited to be a stay at home mom (at least that's what I felt like).
However, on a more interesting note, when insurance said they were not going to pay any of my surgery, I did some research, and found some interesting stuff to help my case, I then sent them a wonderful letter detailing my case and what treatment was recommended, and closed the note saying that if they did not cover my surgery I was going to file a suit for discrimination, and then mailed them a copy of the law that said that it was illegal to discriminate against any joint in the body, which would pretty much guarantee my winning the suit, and they happily agreed to pay for my surgery! So I'm finally going to get it done on December 28!
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
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SO I just got home from my brothers softball game, and beautiful downtown Shuffletown is burning. I can see the flames from my house. There is no electricity in those buildings anymore, so someone deliberately set the fire, that is the biggest shame of them all. From what I can see at least two of the houses on the corner are completely destroyed. It has to be someone new to the area, because everyone that lived here when Shuffletown was open loved it. Even worse, I was looking at one of those houses as the first home for my candle shop...oh well, I'll find another building. I'm going to go outside and watch the fire, hopefully it's a little more controlled that when I drove by.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
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So, the tow truck came, and towed my baby away. The Saturn is not in my driveway...but, the dealership fixed the battery cables, and gave it an excellent bill of health, so my Saturn is back, and I'm selling the Prizm. Anyways, I'm finally all caught up after surgery. I've gotten back into my busy rhythm, my brand new laptop has helped. My laptop died half way through a major paper, which was longer and more in depth than my extended essay, and took me 2.5 days to fully research and write. But I got major recognition for that paper, because it was near perfection. If only I could eat hard food, and by hard I mean anything that's not cooked noodle soft.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
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Ok, surgery is now only 11 hours away...honestly, it still hasn't hit me yet. I was sitting eating my last solid meal for a while, (which was Jack's btw) and I was telling my mom, I'm fine now, but ask me at 3 am and I'll be a nervous wreck. I guess on some level I don't believe it's really gonna happen, I mean this surgery has only been scheduled and rescheduled a gazillion times. For all those who are being supportive, thank you, it means the world to me.
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
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Ok, so I go in for surgery number one friday. I'm excited, but I have a lot of work to do. I have a about 5 more service hours to do, which I kind of lucked out with, because of the hurricane, Crisis Assistance, where I'm volunteering is in desperate need of volunteers. I have 3 tests on Thursday, that should be interesting. Oh well, nothing I haven't had before. Most people have been real supportive, Stephen told me he would take me to class next tuesday, and if he could, he would bring me home. Which means I'll be able to go to class. We'll see how the week unfolds.
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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Ok, so I've now been to 3 of my 4 classes, and they remind me of being at Harding. It doesn't help that I've run into people from Harding, like I saw Sydney, Will was just driving by and waved, but I'm still counting that, Nick X and I are taking the same classes and I ran into him in the parking deck, not to mention many others. And then my Abnormal Psych professor reminds me of Dr. Roth, in several ways, and there is that pregnant teacher that thinks we need sensitivity training (no I won't mention names). So anyways, most of my classes are ok, I better get back to school now.
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Monday, August 15th, 2005
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So I went to the oral surgeons today. And good news, Dr. Spag said that my jaw was healing enough that he felt in a few months he could operate. In fact, I was able to open my mouth 36mm today, which shattered my previous record of 25mm, so he decided I could now open enough to get my wisdom teeth out, which are growing into my nerve and if they didn't come out soon, there could be irreversible nerve damage. So I go in Aug, 26. And after that healing and rehab, we plan on the real surgery. It'll probably be sometime in December. So after 5 1/2 years things are finally going in the right direction. Yay!
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| Time: | 6:01 pm. |
| Mood: |  drained. | | Music: | Relient K - Be My Escape. |
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As most people know I've been doing a lot of renovation, I was building a bookcase this morning, and the directions say, and I quote, "you only need a philip's screwdriver and a hammer. (or whatever tools required)". That made me laugh, probably harder than the warning sign on the blinds. In other news, my friend Robert brought his little baby girl over, she's 3 1/2 weeks old, she's so adorable. And soo tiny, she has the cutest little feet and hands, she fell asleep while I was holding her on my lap for a while. So cute. And on a sad note, one of my kindergarten girls is moving back to China, she came up and gave me a big hug today, and her mom told me they were moving in a couple of weeks. I'm gonna miss her, she was so sweet.
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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| Subject: | WARNING! |
| Time: | 9:48 pm. |
| Mood: | exhausted. | | Music: | If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful - Whitney Houston. |
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Ok, so I've been doing a lot of handy work around the house, mostly fixing up my bedroom, and turning it into an office. Anyways, I just took down some blinds that had seen better days, and put up some bamboo blinds, that are just lovely, if I do say so myself. Oh well, on the blinds the warning label says :This device will not prevent strangulation if children wrap the pull cords around their necks. It sounded like something straight out of my quote book. On another note, I've been working really hard at the school, on Monday and Tuesday I worked 24 hours, but it has paid off, I got two job offers, one for a more permanent spot at the school, well, the principal said he was looking for a more permanent spot for me, this is great because it would be a huge increase in pay, and since my car is dying it couldn't have come at a better time, but it is 44 miles from my home. The second is at a science summer camp in Paw Creek, I fixed a copy machine, and a lady that was visiting the school was like, we need someone to cover assembling and the workings of appliances at the camp and I was like ok.
Moral of Today's story: Blinds will not prevent strangulation.
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Well, It's been a long time since I've posted, but I suppose I haven't had too much to say. These last couple of months I've just sort of gone where the wind blew me, and really haven't cared to do anything about it. But in the past few weeks, lots of things have changed. I have seen this new surgeon, who thinks he can actually do the surgery, it will still be a while before the jaw is strong enough for the surgery, but, he is the first surgeon who has actually had any hope for improving the problem...oral surgeon count: 5. I've been working at the school again, the kids start back August 5, so I won't be working there much longer. But I've also been working redoing a friends house, painting etc. getting the house ready for them to move. And when I'm not working, I've been painting my room, or building bookshelves, or a canopy, or something for my room. And when I'm not doing all those things, I've been trying to catch up with old friends. I've been catching up with Tara, who I'm taking several classes with this fall. She moved to waxhaw recently and it has not been easy to catch up with her. And don't even get me started on trying to get registered for classes at cpcc, only at cp, can you have credit for a higher class, say calc 1 and calc 2, and they won't wave a precalculus prerequisite. Same scenario with english. Oh well. And I've been catching up with good ol' Mikey, we've been friends for years, and it seems like even longer than that. He's the only person I know that I can lose touch with, and then email him out of the blue, and we can pick it all back up again as if we had never missed a beat. So with all these changes, I finally felt like I had something to say again.
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
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Well, I rushed off from school, to go to the dentist, fun fun, and now I can't open my mouth, so I'm hungry and sad...and I can't whine and complain about it, so I had to find some other means to cheer me up and here they are:
"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."
~*~Jack Handy
"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
~*~Albert Einstein
"I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit."
~*~Jack Handey
"Sanity is a one trick pony -- all you have is rational thought. But when you're good and loony, the sky's the limit!"
~*~The Tick
and finally the one that really put me into the christmas spirit...
"There are three stages of a man's life: When he believes in Santa Claus, when he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, and when he is Santa Claus."
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
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So, besides my Atlas Shrugged reading, I have been reading this The Devil's Dictionary it is absolutely hilarious, so I thought I might share some of the really good ones with you all.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
And by far my favorite
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith. The following lines (said to be from the pen of his Grace Bishop Potter) seem to imply that the usefulness of this utensil is not limited to this world; but as the consequences of its employment in this life reach over into the life to come, so also itself may be found on the other side, rewarding its devotees:
Old Nick was summoned to the skies.
Said Peter: "Your intentions
Are good, but you lack enterprise
Concerning new inventions.
"Now, broiling in an ancient plan
Of torment, but I hear it
Reported that the frying-pan
Sears best the wicked spirit.
"Go get one -- fill it up with fat --
Fry sinners brown and good in't."
"I know a trick worth two o' that,"
Said Nick -- "I'll cook their food in't."
Hope you enjoyed, I'll share more later, maybe, but anyways I suggest both readings to you.
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Sunday, November 14th, 2004
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Well, I think my house just inherited two new members. You guys remember Sky's new buddy Dave Mustaine, well I guess his Grams said no, so him and Alex's hamster are moving into my house. Cuz I'm such a sucker for cute furry animals.
**UPDATE**
After much deliberation, it has been decided that Dave Mustaine and company do not have to move out...and they can stay with Skylar. While I would have loved to take the lil' critters in, I'm glad that they can stay with Sky.
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
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I must admit, for such a short notice thing, I had a great time. Sophia and I decided to go 8th period today, and we played Halo 2 at my house before the play. Halo was fun. And both plays made me laugh. Rob made a great Belorussian, and believe me, I've lived with some. Angela was a great klutzy friend of the Belorussian, and a very good, "sexy grandma"...and not everyone can pull that off. My overall rating 2 thumbs way up!
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
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| Time: | 8:15 pm. |
| Mood: |  accomplished. | | Music: | the quiet hum of a working computer. |
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Ok so, I've been back at school for 4 days now, and I'm almost all caught up, but I tell you our teachers really have no clue what other classes we take. I took that calculus test that everyone did bad on, and I made some mistakes, but Blocher and I were talkin about it, and I definately did some stuff perfectly, so it should be pretty good, only missed like 4 2/3 out of 19. Anywho, I just thought everyone would be proud of me being on the ball, since usually it takes me till the end of the quarter to get caught up, and this time, I haven't even used my full 5 days!
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
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| Time: | 6:42 am. |
| Mood: | chipper. |
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I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist this quis! Yes I did mean quis for those of you not in European herstory.
So anyways this made me think, I know it was a silly little quis, but I was like hmmm, a ninja, which made me happy, so I was looking up the origins of my name, well as best they come, you can't actually look up Elisabeth. And basically I thought it described me well:
Frequently possesses E.S.P. Extremely "psychic"; Introvert. Although she does not say much, she usually knows a great deal. Mysterious. Often interested in psychology, psychiatry, chemistry, and botany. Knowledgeable in astrology and all fields of the occult. Fond of fishing. Inclined to take from the "haves" and give to the "have nots".
yes I know, I'm not knowledgeable in all fields of the occult, I am knowledgeable in feilds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. so close enough (yes I did watch every episode of that show, yes I do miss that it is gone, yes I can still quote it word for word). I found the fond of fishing interesting. Not sure how to respond to that though. But I liked the whole Robin Hood aspect of the last sentence, so maybe I use my ex-ninja skills to be Robin Hood, sounds great to me!
Anywho, I'm about to up to Huntersville to rent Doctor Zhivago from Blockbuster, and watch it this afternoon.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
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| Time: | 8:01 pm. |
| Mood: |  confused. |
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mewing.net | merchandise!
I don't know if I agree...soft-spoken, I thought my voice had a rather fortissimo kind of ring to it. Well liked, I thought most people hated me, or at least thought I was weird and wanted to avoid me at all costs...oh well
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Anyways, this has been a wonderful day. I forgot my admissions ticket to the SAT II, so I made it all the way to school about 7:40, then made it all the way to my house and back in 20 minutes, that has to be some kind of new record. well, then, I realized that I thought I was taking different tests, so I left my calculator and I was taking 2 math tests, that's why smart people only take 3 SAT II's and not 6 like dumb ol' me. Anyways, I remembered there were extra calculators in the physics room, which luckily was unlocked, so I borrowed a scientific, but a graphing one sure would have helped on some of them, especially since I needed radians and such, oh well. So I'm pretty sure I messed those up pretty bad, but what the heck, I have 3 more next month!
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Friday, November 5th, 2004
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Well, I don't have to much to say, I dropped of the face of the planet to sleep for like two weeks straight because I was sick, and now I'm back and still sick. So yeah.
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Friday, September 17th, 2004
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Ok, in my search on how to beat the system because I'm getting royally screwed when it comes to financial aid, Ms. Robertson gave me the wonderful Idea of declaring myself an Independent Student. So you know me I look it up and let's see if we can qualify for any of these.
Born before Jan 1, 1982 Nope 4 years too late for this one
Working on Master's or doctorate program Need to get Bach's first next
Married as of today or separated but not divorced That could be arranged *wink wink* someone's gotta be willing to marry me lol
Have children that receive >50% of my income yeah I could get knocked up but I somehow don't see that happening, and my income is $0 I'll give them chaps 100% of that!
Have dependants that receive >50% of their support from you yeah I really can't support someone with my income of $0
Both your parents are deceased, or you are a dependant of the court until age 18 part a could be arranged but that's just cruel, I could worry about being emancipated but I turn 18 in like 4.5 weeks it would just get thrown out
You are a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces If I was a veteran I would have done one of those programs where they paid me to go to school and I wouldn't have to worry about financial aid now would I?
So it boils down to that even though my parents are not supportive of my collegiate aspirations and won't pay for it, I am still considered a dependant student. Any bright ideas?
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